Venice Film Festival Special 2025 | Little White Lies

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Venice Film Festival Special 2025

Published 10 Sep 2025

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On Truth & Movies this week, we come to you live from the city that gave us Don’t Look Now and The Souvenir, Venice, where we’re here to report on the hits and misses from this year’s Venice Film Festival, including new films by Benny Safdie, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mark Jenkin and Park Chan-wook. 

Joining guest host Hannah Strong are Rafa Sales Ross and Marshall Shaffer.

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